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• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  am brief and to the point with my answers! Questions answered by helpers A.M.C. asked, "Just to make sure: Have you received my CD-ROM that ... replied, "A.M.C., they might not know you by your pseudonym. It's easier to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  in more than 700 events over ~3.14 days—everything from How to Build an ... locations around the auditorium to offer feedback on how to balance the levels ... “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  trips, and guitar hero III. I learned how to ski; I beat a song on hard; I ... introduction to physics@mit. This entry has been a while coming. I started ... : To say that I've been busy would be pretty false. I've been doing next

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  exam that I vaguely understood- but I had no idea how I was supposed to ... ) explained to me how to get the answer. He started by drawing an integral ... mom to come Tuesday night and bring me home Wednesday morning. Yeah

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  regard to how I felt or what I wanted to do. I was an instrument of a force ... lulls you to sleep. I wanted to learn about Web sites and how to create ... It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  I'm showing it to strangers on the internet. Funny how that works. i ... orientation[/annotation] was to write a letter to our future selves with FutureMe, to be delivered at the start of the fall semester. That reminded me of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  how happy i was that life felt like an abundant tree of gleaming vibrant fruit, beckoning for me to reach out and grab them. it seems every ... make myself busier. when i have a bad day, i buy myself a coffee to make

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction/repulsion, uncanny valley refers to the sharp dip. There are several theories about why ... that mimicked humans to get closer to us. Whatever the case, this topic

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  how Chiron, the wisest of the centaurs, would have wanted his legacy to ... you inspired for a spoOOoky time at MIT! #1 – Pretend you go to a ... costume for you! Pro: It's an easy costume to pull off when you promised

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  your cross stitching gear and learn how to cross stitch a cool custom MIT ... 't actually build it, we paid a company lots of money to build it, but it ... 's all sorts of other stuff, but that's not what I'm here to write about. I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

   thinking about how i would go to college in a place like this, and now i’m here ... eruptions bring to mind the old tales passed down from our elders. i’m from ... talk about volcanoes, and my teachers have been old enough to remember

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  course of a few weeks, you have to learn how to deal with classes (which ... high school), how to balance extracurriculars, studying, and life, and ... freshman fall is the time to learn how to do that. It is not the time to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  to understand the world, but trying to understand how other people make ... theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave ... class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  E-mails in French House "Seriously, people, what's going on here?"

  

  To understand most of the e-mails sent to the French House mailing list, there are three things you need to know: 1) Right outside our ... house, you have to send an e-mail letting everyone know, to give residents

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  one. I know that I, personally, have been counting down to this day for ... spirit. Why yes, it is my 19th birthday. How’d you know? While true, that ... big, in fact, that the following email was sent out to the MIT community

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  're getting sick of pictures and you'd like to hear more about how I go about ... basic things you need to know about me and this blog you can read about in ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  this month. How sweet is that? Anything Into Oil By Brad Lemley ... . Although the process has never been specifically used to destroy prions ... such extreme temperatures and pressures. Mad cow disease is thought to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  'll travel 13.7 billion years back to explore the Big Bang itself and how state ... opportunity to ask them! HIV/AIDS in Africa: An Open Dialog About the Needs in Developing African Nations and the Role of MIT Students The resources needed to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yoga The joys of physical education

  

  mine) According to our records, you have not completed the General ... total of 8 Physical Education points. It was your responsibility to ... : WHATEVER) It is imperative that you take steps to complete this requirement

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  Someday I must tell you how I did it. Whoo! It's been a while, hasn't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to ... at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005